
State Violence and the Execution of Law
Biopolitcal Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones
Joseph Pugliese(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-415-81555-0 (ISBN)
Description
State Violence and the Execution of Law examines how law plays a fundamental role in enabling state violence and, specifically, specifically, torture, secret imprisonment, and killing-at-a-distance. Analysing the complex ways in which the U.S. government deploys law in order to consolidate and further colonial and imperial relations of power, Joseph Pugliese tracks the networks that enable the diffusion and normalisation of the state's monopoly of legitimate violence both in the U.S. and transnationally. He demonstrates how these networks of state violence are embedded within key legal institutions (US Department of Justice), military apparatuses (U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), civic sites (McCarran airport, Las Vegas), corporations (Boeing), carceral architectures (CIA Salt Pit, Kabul, and Guantanamo), and advanced technologies (unmanned aerial combat vehicles). Law's violence, it is maintained, is always preoccupied with the body: its torture, extortion or extermination. The exercise of state violence, it is argued, must be considered in situated locations that evidence the enmeshment of the body within geopolitical configurations of bio and necropower. For it is in these locations that law plays a foundational role in enabling and legitimising regimes of racialised violence. Drawing on poststructuralist, feminist, queer, critical legal, whiteness and anti-colonial theories, State Violence and Execution of Law brings into focus the contractual imbrication of the state with arms corporations and the contemporary military-industrial complex.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
383 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-81555-0 (9780415815550)
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Biopolitcal Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones
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Biopolitcal Caesurae of Torture, Black Sites, Drones
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Joseph Pugliese is ASsociate Professor at Macquarie University
Content
Introduction: Anatomies of State Violence and the (In)Execution of Law; Chapter 1: Shadow Archives of Torture: Abu Ghraib and Its U.S. Templates; Chapter 2: State Violence's Relational Geographies: Guantanamo Bay, Disneyland; Chapter 3: 'Health in the Balance': Epidemiologies of State Bio-Terror and Biopolitical Continuums of Medical Torture; Chapter 4: Gratuitous and Instrumental State Violence: Redacted Bodies and Torture in the CIA Salt Pit; Chapter 5: Anomic Violence of Drones and the Prosthetics of Empire; Conclusion: Techno-Necropolitical Futures of State Violence: Robotic War and the Liquidation of 'Patterns of Life'